Timespace

Burren College of Art Gallery, Newtown Castle, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare Mon-Fri 10am-4pm Aug 1-Sep 30 065-7077200

Burren College of Art Gallery, Newtown Castle, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare Mon-Fri 10am-4pm Aug 1-Sep 30 065-7077200

Jerome O Drisceoil of Green on Red Gallery puts on his curatorial hat to join Martina Cleary, head of photography at the Burren College of Art (and herself an accomplished photographic artist) in putting together the seventh Burren annual exhibition at the college.

The artists in the show – Kevin Atherton, Damien Flood, Tom Hunter (whose Lover Set on Fire in Bedis pictured) Bea McMahon and Dennis McNulty – are all represented by Green on Red. The rationale is that each, in a particular way, refers to the disruption of conventional sense of time and sequence within "the contemporary cultural 'timespace' we now occupy". Ideas in play include the "collective cinematic unconscious", virtual and subjective realities, popular media mythologising and urban disorientation.

Timespace encompasses photography, video, drawing and sound environments and the good news is that you won’t actually need the collected works of Roland Barthes to understand it all: it’s about you, here, now.

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Aidan Dunne

Aidan Dunne

Aidan Dunne is visual arts critic and contributor to The Irish Times